Thursday, June 21, 2012

Colors Galore!

I've been organizing, tossing, changing! A chance to stay after summer school and clean without the rush to go home has been nice. Summer school hours are great!!!! It's been relaxing to just spend minutes getting things set for next year.

This is my newly designed storage for the kids' book baskets for independent reading. Most recently it was a storage unit for old math manipulatives I haven't used in a while. I donated them to a new Kindergarten teacher--well placed in her room for her to decide if she wants them. The numbered trays 1-4 will house my math work stations.

And the beginning of my new non-fiction section of the classroom library. I did have this bookcase set perpendicular to the wall which used up valuable floor space. I moved it back (toward the air conditioner/heating unit). It has to sit a few inches out from the unit in order to not cover the vents. I hot glued a small bulletin board--really a foam board from Dollar Tree covered with fabric and border. I can place information about our unit of study on that and have an area for book display also. The baskets are sorted by themes.

The twin bookcase to the previous mentioned one has been moved below the bulletin board pictured above. I didn't take a pic of it. It houses my fiction "leftover" books that I don't have enough for a basket by theme or author. I'm going to place my literacy station choices on top of that bookcase.

Now, I do feel that I have accomplished something this week.

Tomorrow--I never know what I'll change or organize until I take a glance around the room.

What are you organizing? Share your thoughts with a link to your blog!!!!

I LOVE the blue and green! I've had that combo in my room for the last two years. It is so calming and lovely. I'm keeping it again. It's the first combo I didn't get tired of by January. I need that tablecloth :) I'm hitting WalMart today! Thanks for sharing the photos!-Michele